Health minister announces plan to allow experienced nurses, physician assistants to train as doctors

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FRANKIE 5 months ago

Loooooong overdue. In the United States and other advanced European countries people with General Arts and Visual Arts, etc backgrounds are allowed to pursue medicine. Better late than never.

Loooooong overdue. In the United States and other advanced European countries people with General Arts and Visual Arts, etc backgrounds are allowed to pursue medicine. Better late than never.
Amecole 5 months ago

Unfortunately this was not what the minister was alluding to. The minister specifically was speaking on the issue of physician assistants and nurses training to be doctors.

Unfortunately this was not what the minister was alluding to. The minister specifically was speaking on the issue of physician assistants and nurses training to be doctors.
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Agyeman Saka 5 months ago

Eiiiii NDC paaa. What is wrong with these morons? Are they trying to cover ANN SANSANI DALY? That’s what you get when you appoint a dining prefect as health minister. This is all talk and hot air. Do they know what it takes ...
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Eiiiii NDC paaa. What is wrong with these morons? Are they trying to cover ANN SANSANI DALY? That’s what you get when you appoint a dining prefect as health minister. This is all talk and hot air. Do they know what it takes to become a fully fledged doctor? Stop the mouth dribbling and get proper advisors to bring in policies that will help the real health professionals and the country. STOP THE POPULIST NONSENSE AND START THINKING.
gradual 5 months ago

You're just naive and ignorant about a lot at the health sector but won't shut up too...for your information, there's already a programme called GEMP where Physician Assistant, Nurses with Degrees, Pharmacists, Lab Scientist, ...
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You're just naive and ignorant about a lot at the health sector but won't shut up too...for your information, there's already a programme called GEMP where Physician Assistant, Nurses with Degrees, Pharmacists, Lab Scientist, Biochemist etc can do medicine in less years to become qualified Medical Doctors. Legon, UCC, UDS already doing it. KNUST started this year, UHAS will start next year. So don't think Nurses, Physician Assistants, etc can't become medical Doctors. There are a lot of Doctors who didn't start medicine right from SHS but did other programs at the Univ and later did medicine. People who did Nursing and other programs weren't that bad academically.
J.C.A 5 months ago

You are a liar, Have you been to Europe or America before. You think it's a joke, go there and pursue with your general arts. Infact in Canada, you must have done general science before you can pursue BSC in nursing. Either y ...
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You are a liar, Have you been to Europe or America before. You think it's a joke, go there and pursue with your general arts. Infact in Canada, you must have done general science before you can pursue BSC in nursing. Either you or the minister is ignorant, in Ghana universities are already running post- graduate medical programs. You must science background from shs and pursue first degree must be a medical program like nursing, lab scientist, physician assistant etc.
Kosi Kuma 5 months ago

In the UK historians and artists can train as medical doctors. Currently in the UK,the study of medicine is modelled on apprenticeship pathway where a student understudy a consultant with sandwich classroom studies.

In the UK historians and artists can train as medical doctors. Currently in the UK,the study of medicine is modelled on apprenticeship pathway where a student understudy a consultant with sandwich classroom studies.
Afia 5 months ago

Basic qualifications for BSc Nursing is General Science from SHS in Ghana, but but somebody with a general Arts at SHS will qualify to do BSc Nursing with Diploma Nursing as a basic qualifications .

Basic qualifications for BSc Nursing is General Science from SHS in Ghana, but but somebody with a general Arts at SHS will qualify to do BSc Nursing with Diploma Nursing as a basic qualifications .
GOOD NEW - THIS IS A CHANCE FOR ANN SANSA DALY TO FINALLY TRAIN TO BECOME A DOCTOR 5 months ago

ANN SANSA DALY CAN NOW HAVE HER DREAMS OF BECOMING A DOCTOR A REALITY. THE MINISTER WILL GIVE HER A FREE TRAINING FROM HER CURRENT QUALIFICATION AS A "HOME HEALTH AID" (A HOME CARE WORKER) TO A FULL DOCTOR. WHAT A GOOD NEWS!! ...
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ANN SANSA DALY CAN NOW HAVE HER DREAMS OF BECOMING A DOCTOR A REALITY. THE MINISTER WILL GIVE HER A FREE TRAINING FROM HER CURRENT QUALIFICATION AS A "HOME HEALTH AID" (A HOME CARE WORKER) TO A FULL DOCTOR. WHAT A GOOD NEWS!!!
GOOD NEW FOR ANN SANSA DALY THE DISGRACED FAKE DOCTORDOCTOR 5 months ago

ANN SANSA DALY CAN NOW HAVE HER DREAMS OF BECOMING A DOCTOR A REALITY. THE MINISTER WILL GIVE HER A FREE TRAINING FROM HER CURRENT QUALIFICATION AS A "HOME HEALTH AID" (A HOME CARE WORKER) TO A FULL DOCTOR. WHAT A GOOD NEWS!! ...
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ANN SANSA DALY CAN NOW HAVE HER DREAMS OF BECOMING A DOCTOR A REALITY. THE MINISTER WILL GIVE HER A FREE TRAINING FROM HER CURRENT QUALIFICATION AS A "HOME HEALTH AID" (A HOME CARE WORKER) TO A FULL DOCTOR. WHAT A GOOD NEWS!!!!!

Oklemekuku 5 months ago

You know what entry qualifications mean ?

You know what entry qualifications mean ?
Amecole 5 months ago

This guy is a liar. Nothing stopped physician assistants nor “experienced” nurses to train as doctors, if they obtain the appropriate qualifications to enter medical school.

In fact, there are a few nurses and physici ...
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This guy is a liar. Nothing stopped physician assistants nor “experienced” nurses to train as doctors, if they obtain the appropriate qualifications to enter medical school.

In fact, there are a few nurses and physician assistants who worked hard to obtain the necessary entry qualifications to enter medical school, and eventually became doctors. That pathway is not usually the case, but is not and has never been a closed door issue.

If the minister is alluding to the “alternate pathway” of medical education which allowed working individuals to work while taking courses to be doctors (as briefly trialled in the UK), that is a different ball game. This alternate pathway of training doctors has been halted in the UK, possibly for obvious reasons.

The lack of regional hospitals in some regions is not a manpower problem, but rather a health services policy and planning issue which can only be dealt with by the ministry of health. If a conscious decision is made to set up regional hospitals in the regions that currently lack such is made by the ministry of health, this can be achieved, obviously with the accompanying financial obligations.
John Martin 5 months ago

Thanks.
The guy is not qualified to be a health minister at all.

Thanks.
The guy is not qualified to be a health minister at all.
K2 5 months ago

U are a fool to say that

U are a fool to say that
Agyeman Saka 5 months ago

K2 you are a bigger fool and uncivilized idiot to think this is the kind of character to serve as Health Minister. The guy is totally unfit and empty. This is not priority. He heard someone talking about something like that i ...
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K2 you are a bigger fool and uncivilized idiot to think this is the kind of character to serve as Health Minister. The guy is totally unfit and empty. This is not priority. He heard someone talking about something like that in the dining hall and he went out there to repeat without understanding the implications. Has he spoken to the governing body of doctors. Does he know the problems in the existing medical schools? Hahahaha. Gyimie paaa nie. A piece of shit like K2 is obviously part of this group of no nothings. Nkwaseafuo ne Nkwaseasem
Lug 5 months ago

Maybe the article did not report well. But nurses and other medical personnel have always gone ahead to train as doctors and other professional if they so desire. You have to have a degree and should pass an interview. I ha ...
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Maybe the article did not report well. But nurses and other medical personnel have always gone ahead to train as doctors and other professional if they so desire. You have to have a degree and should pass an interview. I have classmates in nursing school who are Doctors now. Is a matter of choice and ambition. So is not a policy shift. Unless the minister itself is going to select people and secure slots for them and sponsor them, just like the Cuba policy sometime back.
Abigail 5 months ago

This NDC and Mahama government is doing very very well. Fellow Ghanaians please let us come together and support this government. The haters should be ignored. Shame on them

This NDC and Mahama government is doing very very well. Fellow Ghanaians please let us come together and support this government. The haters should be ignored. Shame on them
Lug 5 months ago

Maybe the article did not report well. But nurses and other medical personnel have always gone ahead to train as doctors and in other professions if they so desire. You have to have a degree and should pass an interview. I ...
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Maybe the article did not report well. But nurses and other medical personnel have always gone ahead to train as doctors and in other professions if they so desire. You have to have a degree and should pass an interview. I have classmates in nursing school who are Doctors now. Is a matter of choice and ambition. So is not a policy shift. Unless the ministery itself is going to select people and secure slots for them and sponsor them, just like the Cuba policy sometime back.
Justice One 5 months ago

I think you are right Lug. There must be something missing in the report.
Is it a government sponsorship in Medical Schools.
Are the trainees be tied to postings in the deprived regions.
Is it going to be a shorter "conver ...
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I think you are right Lug. There must be something missing in the report.
Is it a government sponsorship in Medical Schools.
Are the trainees be tied to postings in the deprived regions.
Is it going to be a shorter "conversion course" compared to 6 years of medical training?
The issue in Ghana's health system now is not even the numbers, it is the quality of young doctors and their dedication to work both of which are of lower standards than 10 or 15 years ago. You have young doctor idle at home for up to a year before they even start housemanship. And when they start they are chasing money like they see their classmates politicians doing.
YEN 5 months ago

Being trained to be a physician is not like training to become a nurse or physician assistant. Some knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry is necessary to formulate the basis of a doctor interviewing and making a ...
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Being trained to be a physician is not like training to become a nurse or physician assistant. Some knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry is necessary to formulate the basis of a doctor interviewing and making a diagnosis based on information sought and received. We already have enough self trained doctors in Northern Ghana who are constantly injecting and killing innocent people with no consequence from the Ministry of Health. The Honorable Health Minister could convene a number of doctors and nurses and try to understand the profession before bringing up plans that will diminish the quality of medicine in already deprived areas of Ghana. Medicine is not physics. Thanks for finally thinking about the health of the Northerners. Some diaspora physician can volunteer to aide you in probably bringing up a Nurse Practitioner program to assist in areas where physicians are scarce rather than spending money on people who could not pass their high School chemistry exams.. Thanks. YEN

Ewvevi 5 months ago

Hei, young inexperienced man Akandoh, if you didn't experience working life to know the real meanings and workings of job experience, do not come and cause chaos in the medical field, OKAY. Who told you that this suggestion o ...
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Hei, young inexperienced man Akandoh, if you didn't experience working life to know the real meanings and workings of job experience, do not come and cause chaos in the medical field, OKAY. Who told you that this suggestion of yours is good enough to become policy? Yes indeed a few of those nurses and physician assistants could have been fantastic medical doctors but for their lack of financial ability, they couldn't achieve their dreams. And it is happening aaaall over the world, and in such cases the nurses and physician assistants themselves make the move to escalate their skill by enrolling for medical school education. Why should you force it? Who are you to say "enunti embra me di eba ni se.." WHO ARE YOU, Mintah? who are you? Majority of these nurses and physician assistants couldn't perform at that top 10% level in science at the high school level and this is not to mock them, but the fact is that, that was their strength. It is not their fault, thus, they being nurses and physician assistants is JUST EXACTLY WHERE THEY OUGHT TO BE according to their aptitudinal abilities. Why do you want to make this a POLICY which is very dangerous. LET THOSE OF THEM WHO NATURALLY HAVE THE BRAINS AND APTITUDE TO APPLY FOR IT. The universities are there, infact, they've been there all along and they haven't rejected anyone who passed their aptitude tests. I have personally encountered very old and senior nurses who can't even speak proper english, can't fix cannulas properly, however, are very good at following their doctors instructions perfectly by administering drugs on time, according to prescription once they have the instructions from the doctors. THAT IS WHAT GOD HAS ALLOWED THEM TO DO, SO ALLOW THEM TO REMAIN NURSES etc. Who are you Akandoh to say YOU have brought in a law? Who are you? you are on record to have only been a dinning hall prefect before becoming a deputy minister. Hey akorlaa, don't bring yuasef, okay. Go and park somewhere.
Susan Djan 5 months ago

NO WAY. HOW? TO KILL OR WHAT

NO WAY. HOW? TO KILL OR WHAT
Kay 5 months ago

Excellent idea. There must be flexibility in the system, this way we'll have enough Doctors and nurses in the system to flush out the useless once who through negligence have killed many.

Excellent idea. There must be flexibility in the system, this way we'll have enough Doctors and nurses in the system to flush out the useless once who through negligence have killed many.
De worshipper 5 months ago

How? I know a nurse who's now a doctor n she did it cos she had the qualifications. Experience in terms of what ? number of years served with requisite qualification or without qualification. Even those qualified doctors are ...
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How? I know a nurse who's now a doctor n she did it cos she had the qualifications. Experience in terms of what ? number of years served with requisite qualification or without qualification. Even those qualified doctors are not employed why coming out with this ? It's not urgent but what's urgent now is how to employ qualified health personnel waiting for postings. Do the needful first before wants.
W. H. O 5 months ago

Why didn't the useless NPP post them for the past 8 good years?

Why didn't the useless NPP post them for the past 8 good years?
Nana 5 months ago

Stop lying. It is either you area doctor who is jealous or an NPP member who doesnt want to see progress. What pertains now in our universities is that they insist on the minimum A level or shs required qualification.

What ...
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Stop lying. It is either you area doctor who is jealous or an NPP member who doesnt want to see progress. What pertains now in our universities is that they insist on the minimum A level or shs required qualification.

Whatever minister is talking of BSc qualifued nurses and physician assistants l with science background and experience. They don't need to have theA level of SHS qualification. So it is a totally different dispensation.
Maputo. 5 months ago

It's a big lie, so many of them are already trained via graduate entry program as doctors

It's a big lie, so many of them are already trained via graduate entry program as doctors
EXCELLENT POLICY 5 months ago

These experienced nurses/pysicians have proficiency supporting doctors in surgery as well as most routine low-risk procedures. They should have opportunity to to be assessed thru bridge-exams to enter formal medical training ...
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These experienced nurses/pysicians have proficiency supporting doctors in surgery as well as most routine low-risk procedures. They should have opportunity to to be assessed thru bridge-exams to enter formal medical training. This policy will help to reduce the very low population/doctor ratio in the country
Troko 5 months ago

Good news am so happy for them and much more doctors

Good news am so happy for them and much more doctors
Akwasi 5 months ago

It's already in the system and a female nurse friend did same about 4 years ago

It's already in the system and a female nurse friend did same about 4 years ago

Nurse 5 months ago

NDC is the best government in Ghana. I will always vote for NDC

NDC is the best government in Ghana. I will always vote for NDC
Sycamore 5 months ago

Apt!

Apt!
Joy 5 months ago

Good idea.mahamac Ndc guys are more knowledgeable than nana addo npp guys. God bless mahama guys.

Good idea.mahamac Ndc guys are more knowledgeable than nana addo npp guys. God bless mahama guys.
Abi 5 months ago

Oh what an innovative government . This work experience promotion to train should have been done long time ago because it's done in europe.even training at work gives u promotion to be trained for better positions.if this is ...
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Oh what an innovative government . This work experience promotion to train should have been done long time ago because it's done in europe.even training at work gives u promotion to be trained for better positions.if this is done in Ghana our doctors want be support workers in europe.kudos health minister.
Nana Bediako 5 months ago

Mahama has great plans. Let's push him.

Mahama has great plans. Let's push him.
Fact-check 5 months ago

That is not true. Nothing stops a nurse or physician assistant from studying medicine. The health minister should check his facts. Even people with other science first degrees are doing medicine. The health minister needs a d ...
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That is not true. Nothing stops a nurse or physician assistant from studying medicine. The health minister should check his facts. Even people with other science first degrees are doing medicine. The health minister needs a deputy a person with a health background to support him
Gaskia 5 months ago

Why not? After all these days it's Google-Assisted medicine we're all practising.

Why not? After all these days it's Google-Assisted medicine we're all practising.
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Lionel, 5 months ago

This is a loudable ideas, they should also be served with attractive salaries and benefits.

This is a loudable ideas, they should also be served with attractive salaries and benefits.
Koti 5 months ago

Living in a country without National Development Agenda, this is what you hear. Politicians hallucinate and we follow like zombies. When was it plan? They come, Create Loot and Share. After 2028 the story would not be differe ...
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Living in a country without National Development Agenda, this is what you hear. Politicians hallucinate and we follow like zombies. When was it plan? They come, Create Loot and Share. After 2028 the story would not be different from what we are hearing today.
Ozymandias 5 months ago

It should be apprenticeship plus sandwich programs for a number of years. That is the right way to go.

It should be apprenticeship plus sandwich programs for a number of years. That is the right way to go.
Kofi Tufuor 5 months ago

Being a Dining Hall Prefect is obviously very different from a Minister of Health. Complete joker.

Being a Dining Hall Prefect is obviously very different from a Minister of Health. Complete joker.
world 5 months ago

good initiative.

good initiative.
Kwame nkrumah 5 months ago

Excellent

Excellent
Jabir Muntala 5 months ago

Too good an initiative

Too good an initiative
Justice 5 months ago

I'm afraid this policy will lower standards. More doctors should be trained to do doctors jobs and more medical or physician assistants also be trained. Standards have been already lowered from JHS to SHS causing the univers ...
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I'm afraid this policy will lower standards. More doctors should be trained to do doctors jobs and more medical or physician assistants also be trained. Standards have been already lowered from JHS to SHS causing the universities to be complaining. Why do we have to push the problem up the ladder? Oh why?
Peaceful man 5 months ago

No problem. I hope they will go to the medical school. If not our lives may be in more danger

No problem. I hope they will go to the medical school. If not our lives may be in more danger
CLEMENT NINGNANG 5 months ago

This is not news because nurses and PAs are already being trained to be medical Doctors; irrespective of their level of experience. The news should be that, PAs and NURSES, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR SHS PROGRAMS, SHOULD BE ALLOWE ...
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This is not news because nurses and PAs are already being trained to be medical Doctors; irrespective of their level of experience. The news should be that, PAs and NURSES, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR SHS PROGRAMS, SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PURSUE MEDICINE. If I am a PA, do I select some diseases to treat? How big is the line between Physician Assistanship and Medicine that a PA with Arts background can not pursue Medicine? The dynamics must be looked at?
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